Health & Science

The three Los Angeles police officers who fired their weapons in a videotaped struggle that left a homeless man dead were veterans of the Skid Row beat who had special training to deal with mentally ill and other people in the downtrodden area, ...

Louisiana has built a $1.1 billion hospital to care for the poor and uninsured in New Orleans. But the manager of the soon-to-be-opened medical center says Gov. Bobby Jindal's budget leaves it millions short of the operating cash it needs.

A total of 770 University of Oregon students were vaccinated Monday at a clinic at Matthew Knight Arena in the campaign against a blood stream infection that has killed one student and sickened three others.

Harper Wehneman didn't have a choice. The medicine required to treat her metastatic kidney cancer would cause hair loss. Once the chemotherapy began, her light brown locks fell out in clumps. Soon after, the young girl's head was as smooth as velvet.